My main objective for the upcoming year is to launch a business. I currently struggle to provide for my seven children because I do not have a steady source of income. I hope that starting a business will give me a second source of income. As a result, I will keep providing for my kids. I have also started raising some livestock, and I currently have a cow and five goats. It is something we want to achieve in the upcoming year. In the coming year, I hope to see them grow in number. I'll be able to generate some extra income from them, which I can use to pay for my kids' school supplies and food.

GiveDirectly does well in helping those in need in society by giving them cash transfers with no conditions. For many people, it has been of great assistance. Our burden has been reduced courtesy of the transfer. As a result, there is a general change in our society. Most people have built new houses because our houses were too old and small to accommodate all our family members. Some also found it easy to purchase food and start raising livestock. Those were goals that some of us could not accomplish at first. There is nothing that GiveDirectly does not do well.

I am a single parent of seven children, and I do not have any close relatives to help me support them. I used $150 of the transfer to pay off my children's school fees. I also had a house that was still being built and was not complete. I, therefore, spent $100 to complete building it. Last but not least, I spent $200 on food since we ran out of some items. I am relieved to have my own house done now. Initially, my mother and I shared a house because there was no other option. I was sleeping in the same room with eight children, a situation that was quite inconvenient.

It was around 5 when I was washing my dishes when I realised that there were three unread messages on my phone. I had to ask one of my children to verify the contents because I was quite engaged. Upon checking she realized that it was an Mpesa message from GiveDirectly. I had eagerly been waiting for this fortune and I couldn't hold my joy.

Being a single parent of four kids, I have been yearning to have a long-term investment in terms of livestock but I could not afford any. Therefore after receiving the cash I had to prioritise dairy farming. I thought of practising this since it has numerous benefits such as providing nutrition support and enhancing economic growth. Since I have been depending on casual jobs, and all my four children are still in primary schools, I am certain that by the time they will be transitioning to higher institutions, I will have enough saved enough money to support their education journey. This is because I am positive that soon I will start supplying milk to the nearby dairy shops and neighbours and generate an income. Apart from empowering my children, will also help in ending extreme poverty since I will be earning daily.

I spend KES 10000 of my first transfers on paying school fees for my four children, one in college and the others in primary schools. As a single parent, it has been worrying me a lot as much as I have been trying to make ends meet, I could not raise the fees needed. It is now a relief to us because I am assured that they will study comfortably for the rest of the year. Also, I bought a wooden door to fix into my house because the initial one had worn out. To add to that, I bought livestock( dairy cow) and I am very optimistic that I will achieve most of my goals through it. One of them is paying fees for my children since I will soon start supplying milk to nearby dairy shops. With the remaining amount, I bought food for my family.